“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
